“What’s exciting here is that we’ve created a tool that allows a casual user to design their own robot by giving them this expert knowledge.” Casual roboticists?

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute says the combination of a drone and snake robot (that can make a cute little 'C' shape when it wants to be picked up) is ideal for accident monitoring.

That nifty Voliro drone from ETH Zurich is being put to work by the team of undergrads who invented it, because apparently getting that drone to work in the first place wasn't good enough and they had to do more stuff in order to get their degrees.

more in-depth look at the Democratic Robot, which finished 5th in the July 2017 Weaponized Plastic event, despite limited weaponry and defenses consisting primarily of printed pictures of kittens.

While I dislike most drone delivery videos, this is at least one case where 'we have a dumb drone that can dumbly haul stuff from one nearby place to another as long as there are no obstacles in the way' is actually useful, since there's a bunch of water in the way.

The sensors have a 360°-view of the cars’ surroundings, and we utilize our proven algorithms along with real-time data to help the car “see” through low visibility.

It's not every day you see a robot crab with four legs and a humanoid robot with six (!) arms both beating up on a robot that may or may not be made of solid gold:

We rely on state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, multi-sensor fusion for localization of the robot, detection and motion estimation of the moving platform, and path planning for fully autonomous navigation.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a fully autonomous quadrotor system capable of landing on a moving target, using only onboard sensing and computing, without relying on any external infrastructure.

In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how the technology will challenge our morality and explains his work collecting data from real people on the ethical trade-offs we're willing (and not willing) to make.

On Monday, January 21, 2019

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